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2. Concerned over the reports of US Education Department showing continuous erosion in the vocabulary skills among students, Michigan educationist M Manis S Shel helly ly Kaur Kaura a started an online initiative, Vocab Tunes, to improve the situation. The report showed a steady decline of vocabulary knowledge among school kids for the past 50 years. Manisha and her father Dr. S.R. Kaura devoted their time to identify the root cause of the problem. During their extensive research, they discovered that the lack of knowledge about root words is a major reason behind the poor vocabulary among country’s young minds. Voc pro progra gram ms s play an important role in making kids aware about the Greek and Latin ro roo ot t w wo ords rds thereby strengthening their English vocabulary. anisha ha Voca ab T b Tune unes s’ ’ o onli nline learning ne learning To make learning an easy and fun activity, Vocab Tunes has come up with an exciting concept of biwee biweek kly ly dance c dance co ontes ntest t for schoolchildren. The competition aims at making kids fall in love with learning new on the select songs of Vocab Tunes. new Engl Englis ish h wo words rds while grooving To download Vocab Tunes’ Songs, Click here: http://vocabtunes.com/biweekly- songs-download/ A Xavier University, Cincinnati alumnus Manisha says in a recent interview, “Singing and dancing is a whole mind/body experience, also students are more interested in learning through music and songs other than monotonous classroom activities. Therefore while preparing our Vocab Tunes’ programs we focused on making it a melodious learning activity.” M Manis anisha help kids e enhance vocabulary textbooks named ‘Rockin’ Root Words’ (Prufrock Press, 2010) to help young minds enrich their vocabulary skills. ha along with her father, created a four-level K-12 vocabulary program to nhance v vo oc cabulary abulary. The father-daughter duo has authored two Det Detai ails ls of of Biwe Biweekl ekly y D Danc ance Co e Contes ntest t 26 26 June June – – 9 9 Ju July ly S Subm ubmis iss sion ion o of Vi f Video deo clip clips s 10 10 Ju July ly – – 23 23 Ju July ly Voti Voting ng th thro rough ugh s so ocial cial m medi edia a 24 24 Ju July ly & & 25 25 Ju July ly Anno Announ P Prize di rize dis stribut unce cem ment o tribution ent of wi ion f winner nner & &

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